Final State Highlights coming this week...

If you haven't caught up with the CIF State XC final results yet, here's a link to all the details and we'll have more highlights coming later this week:

http://running.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/

A very impressive 11th place DII finish and all-time MCHS team time improvement of ~1:40 on the Woodward Park course for the Boys; this team ran great!!!   ...Boys were led again by Ryan Anderson who ran 15:40 for the 5K distance; only the best performance by any other boy athlete n the Redwood Empire!

The girls 17th place team finish wasn't consistent with their amazing season performances to date, but we still had some stand-out performances on the Girls squad led by "Gram" Brynna Thigpen!

...OK, so what's next?

THIS WEEK: 
Athletes will either start your 2 week break now, or some runners will be training on their own, meeting at our usual practice time through this week to prepare for the Foot Locker Western Regional on Saturday, 12/1/12 (we've already named the limited roster; please see Greg or Sheryl for details if you don't already have them!).   -However and since the season is officially done, we cannot actually have organized direct coaching/practice sessions, so please consider the following as non-mandatory and only training suggestions for those wanting to "stay sharp" for the Foot Locker race training on your own:
-Mon: EZ 1 hr. run
-Tue: 3200 on the track > 2-3 miles cool-down > stretch/roll
-Wed:  EZ 45 min
-Thu: EZ 20 min warm-up > 2 x 3:00 at ST pace > 1 x 600m at I pace > 5 min cool down > stretch/roll
-Fri: EZ 30 min

NEXT WEEK:
End of the MCHS XC season celebration at MCHS small gym is Saturday 12/8/12 6:00-8:30PM (including a final, final ~5 minute relay contest to determine the winner of the Crazy relays trophy between the Seniors and Juniors); see previous blog post for more information.

SOMETIME IN DECEMBER: 
The Girls Team will be cooking/serving dinner to the Guys!     ...Details TBD

Lastly, the coaching staff is still hoping the XC team can put together a  roster for the coaches annual 3 on 3 B-ball challenge.    ...Hey Jordan, how's that going?   ;)

Any questions, or if you need any additional information, feel free to contact Coach Greg directly:

Cell Phone: (707) 291-2967
E-mail: greg.fogg@comcast.net